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Chicago initially struggles to become the mecca it aspires to be until the circumstances of seasonal business can be overcome. The idea of using the canal and water ways as the biggest form of transport met its difficulties especially in the winter. Also another major issue was bringing the food produced by farmers into the city because of the road conditions. As ploopy1 states, the city could not become what it is without the influence of the country. This proves to be true when the railroad is first put unto investors and getting little backing. Many of these farmers end up putting up money to get it started because it will make it easier and faster to get more of their product to the city for sale. This small little strip of track begins to change everything and will turn Chicago into the central hub for sending product from the west to the East for consumption. This not only becomes a faster source of creating capital but it also does things like creating time zones so that schedules can be kept for passengers and preventing accidents. It also creates a system were the railroad would rather lower prices and lose some money than hold and not make anything it all in what is today still the capitalist system. The establishment of the railroad also creates a more competitive market. The railroad spans all over the west leading directly back to Chicago enabling the Illinois railroad to have a monopoly on that side but on the East it is a direct route with other lines competing in the same area. This is what makes it the hub to the East in receiving goods from the west. Chicago connects agriculture with Industry making it all tie together from an idea that formed on the hope of making it easier for local farms to get goods to the city.